ALTERNATE TITLE
数字藏经洞
CATEGORY
Images
INSTITUTION
Dunhuang Academy
ACCESS
open access
URL
https://cave17.e-dunhuang.com/
DESCRIPTION
Dunhuang Academy's Digital Library Cave (数字藏经洞 / Digital Cave 17) provides free access to over 60,000 high-resolution images of Dunhuang manuscripts and artworks from the famous Library Cave (Cave 17) discovered in 1900. The platform aggregates materials dispersed across global institutions including British Library (UK), Bibliothèque nationale de France (France), Institute of Oriental Manuscripts (Russia), National Library of China, and numerous other collections holding Dunhuang treasures. Cave 17 originally contained approximately 50,000 manuscripts and printed documents spanning 4th-11th centuries CE, representing Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Manichaeism, and secular texts in Chinese, Tibetan, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Khotanese, and other languages. Advanced features include crowdsourcing for transcription and annotation, OCR technology for text recognition, AI-powered search and analysis, and tools for comparative study.
SOURCE LIST
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
TAGS
LAST MODIFIED
2026-01-16